Sorry, any mention of mothership brings back memories of Stevenson North, NIU circa 1975. And this is the picture I really wanted to get.
The Mothership's Even Visited Congress http://www.theonion.com/onion3539/national_funk_congress.html I'm a "Get It On" guy myself. Huck 'em Fuskies!
Fortunately pretty much all the WWI veterans are dead so they're not around to see what Richie's done to their memorial. Daniel Burnham is break-dancing in his grave. This is so depressing...
In the words of Mike Ditka, from that Bank One commercial: "The new stadium is great, and everyone will love it when they get through complaining"
You people act like Soldier Field pre-renovation was the greatest architectural achievement in the history of time. http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/sports/5831619.htm
Ah, good ole' Stevenson North - 11th Floor (1987). How I miss carting all my stuff up 11 flights of stairs on move-in day as the "vators" weren't working...again. Good times.
Re: Re: And the Mother-Ship has landed The inside of the Statue of Liberty might smell like piss, but that doesn't mean we should destroy it.
Re: Re: Re: And the Mother-Ship has landed Wouldn't want to squeeze 60,000 people into it for 2-3 hours at a time for the purposes of "entertainment" either.
Re: Re: Re: And the Mother-Ship has landed Talk about your inappropriate comparisons. Newsflash: Soldier Field is a stadium. It's a memorial, sure, and part of a park, yeah....but still a stadium. And in its previous forms, quite the crappy one as far as stadiums nowadays go. But I'm sure all you old-timers here vigorously protested both the temporary and permanent North stands when they went up, or when they shut down the memorial collonnades to public access, or when they erected the skyboxes, or built the Park District administration building to seal off the north side. Oh, nevermind. Those things were SO different than this project. My bad. I stand by my statement that all this uneccessary and misplaced hatred over the stadium design stirred up primarily by the Chicago Tribune primarily for its own purposes will be forgotten completely about halfway into Novemeber and if the Bears get off to a good start it may not even last the entirety of the first game.
Yes, because those things didn't obliterate the rather scenic nature of the area like this monstrosity does. It's ridiculous. When people pissed and moaned about Comiskey Park being leveled, everyone was assured how wonderful this new stadium would be. We're still waiting to grasp it's subtle charms. As far as Burnham is concerned, I'm sure he would NOT be amused. If McCormick Place didn't strike him blind, this thing certianly would. Remember, the entire Lakefront was supposed to be a wonder of the world. One great big gigantic public park to be the jewel of the city. The entire area surrounding the stadium had a very common look to it (the buildings were originally part of the worlds fair, and they kept them) and now we have a great big wanking steal convention center, and now this thing which looks like it's trying to escape from it's original shell. Maybe after the Comiskey Park fiasco, someone might have figured out that aesthetic value has long term impacts on revenues and should be considered. Apparently it's a lesson that has to be learned again and again.
Ugh. Let's face it, this thing is ugly. Maybe it will be nice on the inside but it is an ugly design, period. Chicago has been known as an architectual showpiece town, so this thing is a bit of a disappointment on our unique and beautiful lakefront ....in my opinion. ShlT, even Chicago's rivalry with the Packers should elicit a better design then this..they did a pretty good job up in Green Bay, while we're left with an ugly half compromise. I like the landscape design they have in mind, but this crooked bowl sticking out of the ruins of a classic stadium will never ever look/feel quite right. But hell , I'd rather watch the Fire play on a grass field inside a huge pink tupperware bowl on the lakefront then the second rate thrown together plastic feild that is all the way out there in Naperville. So I can deal with the new stadium , cuz I've already drilled it into my head that the Fire will someday have it's own Firehouse built sensibly and with taste, with the average fan in mind....maybe I'm dreamin'.....oh well. Let the corporate Bear fan's worry about their new playground and how to fill their skyboxes, I'll choose to look forward to our own home.
Re: Re: Re: Re: And the Mother-Ship has landed WHAT?! One needn't even glance at the tribune to despise that stadium design. I don't read the trib... don't really like it. I think that stadium redesign is unbelievably ugly. People don't need any part of the media to tell them that. They just need eyes. I mean... look at that photo. If I hadn't seen the real thing in person, I'd think that was a photoshop doctored photo. The integration with the old design looks so bad, it doesn't even look real. I've seen comments from around the world that it's hideous. Whether or not you liked the look of the old stadium or not, I think it had a bit of charm. The columns looked decidedly Chicagoan to me. But the way it looks now... I wish they had torn the whole thing down first. It looks to me like they made no attempt at integration whatsoever. It's a joke... it's embarrassing for Chicago... That said... I'll go there and watch Fire games... but Don sure hit the nail on the head when he called it "Frankenstadium." Don? Did you coin that, or was that from someone else?
A mere few years ago, I would have taken a bite of a raw onion (not vidalia) and screamed vulgarities at you from 2-3 inches away. How things have changed. 1. I haven't seen anyone whining. Complaining, yes. We have a right to do that. The thing is ridiculous. 2. It's reality. This is true. However, the stadium is every single horrible thing that its detractors said it would be. Everything the people who wanted it built said it wouldn't be... it is. Everything those who were against the stadium said would be wrong with it... well, that's what's wrong with it. There's something wrong with that. 3. It is certainly not over. It's not over, because the world extends beyond bigsoccer... even beyond the Chicago area. People all over the world have complained about the stadium. It's not over, because the next time someone wants to do something like that, they can show the pic at the beginning of the thread and have a valid argument. 4. Who the f*** are you to tell anyone to stop whining? (oops... old habits die hard.) That's what you think people should do? If people are against something they should protest it only until they lose... then they should sit back and take it up the backside like a good, submissive little b****? Maybe that's the way you work, but some people really think that stadium is horrific. I'm one of them. Right now, I bet even the people who were for the preservation of the previous structure are wishing they had just torn the thing down. This, on the other hand, is valid. I'm looking forward to games in the city again... even though there are a LOT of things I like about being out here in Naperville. But holy hell that thing is UGLY!
Bootsy Fire commercial? Why not hire Bootsy to do an ad?? 'Put a glide in your stride, a dip(sy) in your hip And head down to the Mothership!'
We really do deserve better. However, I do not think we will get it from Daley, Reinsdorf, Tribune, McCaskey, or Wirtz. What we have now are four corporate playgrounds (five if you count Allstate Arena: home of the B**e D***ns).